NIKKI TRELEAVEN/The Register Citizen Local residents Matthew and Barbara Sargent-Valenti will put on their original version of "Sleeping Beauty" the musical at the Warner this weekend.

TORRINGTON >> A musical adaptation of the popular fairytale "Sleeping Beauty" written and produced by the Torrington Middle School's orchestra director and his wife will open this weekend at the Warner Theatre.

Written by orchestra director Matthew Valenti and his wife, Barbara Sargent-Valenti, a private flute and piano instructor in 1996, it is based on the adoption of their daughter, Maura, from South Korea, and how they later told her she was adopted. It first debuted at the Warner Theatre in 1996.

This weekend will be the third major production of the musical showing Saturday at 2 and 7 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. Tickets are $12.

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According to Matthew Valenti, the Sleeping Beauty musical will have a seven piece orchestra and his wife will be playing the flute in the pit.

"We do it for the love of theater and the love of writing," said Matthew.

The musical is a spin off of the original Sleeping Beauty fairytale written by Charles Perrault in the late 1600's.

"Sleeping Beauty takes the basic story of Briar Rose and Sleeping Beauty and gives it a slightly deeper meaning about the passage of time and never ending love," Barbara Sargent-Valenti wrote in a synopsis of the musical.

The director of the musical is Caitlin Gasper, who is friends with Maura Valenti. The choreographer of the musical is Sheila Waters-Fucci.

The play is performed by children from the Warner Theatre Center for the Arts. Briar Rose is performed by Emma MacDonald, older Nicholas is played by Zach Roberts and Month Remember is performed by Isabella Riccio.

According to the synopsis, the musical will start off at princess Briar Rose's baptism and the 13 Months (magical fairies) of the Royal Year are invited to attend. Each fairy represents a month of the year while the 13th month is called Remember. At the banquet to celebrate the baptism, there are 12 golden plates and one pewter plate at the table. Month Remember is angry she has the pewter plate at her place and puts a curse on the princess, and that on her 16th birthday she will prick her finger on a spindle and die. However, month December alters the curse and instead the princess will sleep for 100 years and be woken up by her true love.

To further protect the princess, she is given to another king and queen in another kingdom to prevent the curse from happening. In the family, there is a boy named Nicholas who later turns out to be the princess's true love when it is discovered the princess is not his real sister. Meanwhile, Month Remember forces the princess to remember her life with her birth parents and falls under the curse. Month Remember also tries to prevent Nicholas from awakening the princess.

"The ending is a surprise, but it is a very happy ending, which is my very favorite kind. I always love to add 'and they lived happily ever after' to my stories, too," Barbara Sargent-Valenti wrote at the end of the synopsis.